Last day Quote by Joseph E. Persico

“Sergeant Powell would never understand what compelled Henry Gunther to rise up and charge the enemy. Gunther had never been seduced by dreams of…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Henry Cabot Lodge. Wilson rejected even reasonable compromises, and Lodge refused to budge. Hence, the United States failed to enter…

— Joseph E. Persico

“On December 18, he asked each side to set forth its terms for ending the war. The Allies demanded conditions certain to be unacceptable:…

— Joseph E. Persico

“The first-day casualties on the Somme totaled 57,470.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“The last deaths of the Great War on the western front occurred at midnight on the twelfth in Hamont, a Belgian town near the…

— Joseph E. Persico

“German resistance continued to present a hodgepodge of fanaticism amid disorder. A British patrol entering a deserted village east of Valenciennes in the northern…

— Joseph E. Persico

“The imperative of war is to kill, and thus all wars are exercises in sanctioned murder.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“The initial conclusion of the subcommittee was that “needless slaughter” took place on November 11, 1918. However, this finding was beaten back by vocal…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Moltke began to tamper with Schlieffen’s plan. Instead of investing 90 percent of the German Army in the French campaign, as required, he began…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Compounding the horror, German officials committed an act of staggering insensitivity: they struck a commemorative medal with a depiction of the sinking ship on…

— Joseph E. Persico

“constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub’s A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor’s The First World War, John Keegan’s The…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Mustard gas was stubborn, clinging to the ground as long as three days. Heavier than air, it settled into craters and trenches where men…

— Joseph E. Persico